Former Flower Mound Councilman Ben Bumgarner won the Republican primary runoff election for Texas House District 63 on Tuesday night.
With all precincts reporting, Bumgarner received 4,940 votes to Jeff Younger’s 2,997 votes, a 62.2 to 37.8% difference, according to unofficial results from the Denton County Elections office.
Bumgarner said Tuesday night that his “phone hasn’t stopped ringing” since the early voting numbers were released just after 7 p.m.
“It’s been a long grind the last six months,” he said. “All the work that me and my team have done has been amazing. We said we wouldn’t be outworked on the doors, and it got us across the finish line today.”
Bumgarner and Younger — an anti-transgender activist from Flower Mound — were the top two vote recipients in a four-way race in the March Republican primary, but neither received more than half the vote, triggering Tuesday’s runoff.
The winner of the runoff will face Democrat Denise Wooten, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary, in November’s General Election. HD 63 — which covers a section of southern Denton County including Roanoke, Flower Mound and Lewisville — is expected to remain reliably Republican after last year’s redistricting. They are seeking to replace Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, who is running for State Senate District 12 after a long stint in HD 63.
See statewide election results here.
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